RE: gold secondary

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Original poster: Terrell Fritz <terrellfone@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Hi,

The spark gap losses are 100 times higher than those of the 
secondary, cap, and primary coil resistances...

"It's the D*** GAP!!!!!!!"

All "my" gaps are super low loss solid state now, "guess why" :O)))

Cheers,

        Terry



At 03:22 PM 2/16/2007, you wrote:
> Original poster: Ben McMillen <spoonman534@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> Hello All,
>    Just a thought.. Since Al mentioned 'room temperature'..
>
> Has anyone attempted making a secondary that was encased in
> a dewar (or similar casing) to allow cooling with LN2? (or
> liquid helium, tho this is likely more expensive and harder
> to come by)..
>
> I'm wondering if this would have any benefits of coil
> performance by lowering the resistance of the wire.. Or
> you'd just boil off all the LN2..
>
> Either way, it'd probably create quite an impressive visual
> effect.. ;)
>
>
> Coiling In Pittsburgh
> Ben McMillen
>
> --- Tesla list <tesla@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Original poster: "alfred erpel" <alfred@xxxxxxxxx>
> >
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